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The Sounds of Eucharistic Culture
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: A Companion to the Eucharist in the Reformation, edited by Lee Palmer Wandel, 445-65. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 46. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/CRcr2FfM
Von Bulow 1/ Mark Anderson
Artists: Mark Anderson Recording details: Baron Hans Guido von Bülow (1839-1894) was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. One of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time, especially Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms. Alongside Carl Tausig, Bülow was perhaps the most prominent […]
V. 1600-1750
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: Part of “History of Liturgical Music” [revised from Anthony Milner]. In the New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2011, ed. Robert Fastiggi, et al, 2:466-69. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2011. Weblink: https://www.gale.com/ebooks/
Themes of Exile and (Re-)Enclosure in Music for the Franciscan Convents of Counter-Reformation Munich during the Thirty Years War
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives, edited by Lynne Tatlock, 281-305. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Weblink: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004184541.i-478.39 Abstract: This anthology assembles cross-disciplinary perspectives on the experience of and responses to forms of material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany, tracing how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and […]
Alls wie mann inn krieg pflegt zue thuen: Music and Catholic Processions in Counter-Reformation Augsburg
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City, edited by Glenn Clark, et al., 254-72. Montréal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/MGCKKm2c Abstract: Deals with the aspects of city life in the European centres such as London, Paris, Augsburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Edinburgh. Covering topics such as governance, performance, high culture […]
Edition of Anton Holzner, Viretum pierium
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: (Munich: Nikolaus Heinrich, 1621). Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era 156. Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, 2009. Weblink: https://www.areditions.com
Combinatorial Modeling in the Chorus Movement of Cantata 24, Ein ungefärbt Gemüte.”
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: About Bach, edited by Gregory G. Butler, Mary Dalton Greer, and George B. Stauffer, 35–52. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/sGfYpfmy Abstract: That Johann Sebastian Bach is a pivotal figure in the history of Western music is hardly news, and the magnitude of his achievement is so […]
Music and Religious Change
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Reform and Expansion, 1500–1660, edited by R. Po-Chia Hsia. The Cambridge History of Christianity 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/7P3HMLWY Abstract: Between the beginning of the Lutheran Reformation and the end of the Thirty Years’ War sacred music in early modern Europe underwent several waves of transformation, responding partly […]
Salminger, Sigmund
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2d ed., Personenteil 14:867–8. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2005. Weblink: www.abebooks.com
Mussorgsky & Stravinsky: Music for Two Pianos
Artists: Mark Anderson and Tamariko Siprashvili Recording details: “These are very fine performances with plenty of virtuosity and a lovely burnished tone”— JAMES LEONARD, ALLMUSIC (ALLMUSIC.COM) Nimbus Records, 2004